After pondering for a long time, she decided to restrain her impulse for the time being. The main reason was that it would be a waste of time to climb the ventilation duct from here. According to the analysis of the tracker, Daniel Zhang should be locked in a room between the 25th and 27th floors. There was no need to climb from the ventilation duct to the 20th floor, right? How long would that take?!
Therefore, Li Yao planned to go up to the twentieth floor using the escape stairs and see what would happen.
He crouched like a weightless shadow and sped up the escape stairs.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Inside the building, the sound of explosions rose and fell one after another, mixed with sharp roars, like the mournful song of a banshee. There was even the sound of some kind of ferocious beast breaking bones, which made Li Yao's hair stand on end, and a warm current flowed out from the depths of his heart.
He pressed his palm against the wall and could clearly sense the trembling of the wall and the energy ripples coming from the reinforced concrete. They were like countless destructive vortexes crashing, exploding, and bursting forth not far away from him.
For the time being, Li Yao was unable to interfere with the struggle between Apocalypse and the Ark. All he could do was lower his head and charge upwards.
At the corner between the seventh and eighth floors, he encountered his first enemy.
"Eh, eh, eh, eh!"
A strange screeching sound rang out again, and a gray-skinned woman came out of the shadows. She was holding a heavy and sharp fire axe and chopped at Li Yao.
She had been crouching in the corner, like a hunter deliberately lying in wait. If Li Yao hadn't heard her weak breathing and heartbeat in advance, he might have really been caught by her.
As for now, Li Yao obviously wouldn't fall for it. Before the opponent's fire axe reached its highest point, he used a roundhouse kick and directly kicked the opponent back to the corner.
After confirming that the other party had thrown the fire axe to the side, Li Yao finally had the time to observe carefully.
She was a woman with delicate features. Judging from her clothes, she should be an office lady in the Fortune Building. She didn't look like a professional bodyguard or assassin. Naturally, she didn't look like an Awakened.
Her skin seemed to be wrapped in a layer of gray scales, and her eyes were beastly. Her expression was ferocious and ferocious, and her temperament was not at all like that of an urban white-collar worker. Instead, it was somewhat similar to … Li Yao's roommate, Zhao Kai. Of course, it was Zhao Kai when he went berserk.
Li Yao glanced at the woman's ear. Sure enough, he found a Bluetooth earpiece on her left ear. He sighed slightly and shot a steel nail from between his fingers. Before the other party recovered from the shock of her internal organs, he shot the earpiece into pieces. The woman suddenly became sluggish as if she had been electrocuted. "Wah!" She spat out a mouthful of black blood and became dispirited.
From the looks of it, she wasn't an Awakened of the Apocalypse Organization. Instead, like Zhao Kai, she had been remotely controlled by someone in the Apocalypse Organization through a phone call. She had awakened a portion of her violent memories from her previous life and became a puppet. She was deliberately placed here to act as a guard.
In the office buildings of the Central Business District, many people were workaholics who worked from nine to ten. With such a rare rainstorm, the underground garages were flooded, and public transportation was stopped. Countless office workers were trapped in the building, unable to leave. Now that the Awakened of the Apocalypse and the Ark were engaged in a fierce battle, these innocent people were also involved. Other than the woman in front of him, there must be more people who were affected.
Although the Hunter said that people in the World of Reincarnation had unlimited lifespans, and that the life and death of a particular life didn't matter at all, Li Yao didn't think so.
If possible, he would still do his best to help everyone that could be helped and save everything that was worth saving!
Li Yao tested the woman's breath. Although it was weak, it was still stable. She was probably just exhausted. Except for some bruises and contusions on her chest and back, there were no major problems. Only then did Li Yao feel relieved and continue to go up.
Knowing that the Apocalypse Organization might have placed guards on the escape stairs, Li Yao became more and more careful. Every time he went up, he would listen to the movements above. If he found weak breathing or heartbeat, he would rather find another route than clash with the puppets controlled by the phone. These people were innocent like Zhao Kai. Besides, Li Yao wasn't sure if he would attract the attention of the masters of the Apocalypse Organization if he killed all the way up. They didn't even need to confront him directly. As long as they moved Daniel Zhang's location in time, it would be enough to give him a headache.
Fortunately, the number of Awakened of the Apocalypse Organization and the Ark Foundation was not too high.
In the morgue, the "Lady of Grey Fog" said that the Ark Foundation would send "ten Deep Explorers and two Final Explorers" to help Jiangnan City. These were all high-end combat forces from other places. Although he didn't know how many low-level combat forces there were in the local area, overall, the number of people was not likely to exceed 100.
In order to ensure the secrecy of the trap, the Apocalypse Organization couldn't send three to five hundred people to set up an ambush with great fanfare.
There were at most two to three hundred people on both sides, and they were all focused on each other. For a master like Li Yao, who was proficient in sneaking around in the dark, it was easy for him to avoid the ambush.
Although he took an unconcerned attitude and didn't see the fierce confrontation between the Awakened of the two sides with his own eyes, he passed by several broken and messy floors.
The ghastly scene silently told of the horror of a moment ago.
The seventeenth floor of the Fortune Building seemed to have experienced a terrible explosion. The original cubicles and wall panels were all gone, and there were black burn marks everywhere. Strangely, the seemingly fierce fire didn't spread above the eighteenth floor at all. It was confined to this narrow space.
On the nineteenth floor, although the cubicles and pathways still existed, the place was full of messy, dense vines, as if he had crawled into a primitive forest. He could even hear the noises of the vines as they grew and wriggled.
When he reached the 21st floor, something even stranger happened. When Li Yao confirmed that there was no one inside, he opened the door to the escape tunnel. Only then did he discover that the entire floor was filled with ice-cold seawater. He could faintly see terrifying sharks in the seawater, but the seawater was sealed by an invisible barrier. It only surged on the 21st floor and did not leak out in the slightest, as if it was a crazy aquarium.
"Is this the power of the Awakened?"
Li Yao was baffled. "The water is bitter and salty. It's indeed seawater, not rainwater or water from the fire pipe. How did they 'transfer' so much seawater here and seal it?"
There was no time to think about it.
The energy fluctuations above were getting stronger and stronger, and the sound of fighting was endless. It seemed that most of the Awakened had gathered above the twenty-fifth floor to launch the final attack and defense.
Li Yao finally had the opportunity to awaken the deepest and most familiar memories.
Just as he was walking up the stairs, he found several fire emergency boxes and pulled out the fire hoses inside.
He pulled out three to five fire hoses in a row. They were hundreds of meters long and weighed hundreds of pounds. Anyway, he now had infinite monster strength. This weight was nothing.
He kicked the protective door of an elevator. Inside was a dark and empty elevator shaft. Li Yao carried the fire hose and climbed up the elevator steel cable. He climbed up about the twenty-fourth floor and found the ventilation duct next to it.
Li Yao slithered silently in the ventilation duct.
He was like a happy zebra, happily galloping on the African prairie.
Not long after, he sensed two powerful energy fluctuations. They should be the Lady of Gray Fog and the Hunter, the commanders of both sides who participated in the battle of Jiangnan City.
Li Yao wanted to peek at the battle between the two powerful Awakened, but after thinking about it calmly, he realized that he had just awakened and could not control the overflowing power well. If he dared to climb the ventilation duct at such a close distance, he would be taking advantage of the situation. It was better not to rush out and ask for trouble.
Li Yao stayed far away from the two commanders and continued crawling on his ventilation tube carefully and attentively.
How should he put it? Although the ventilation tube was zigzagging, narrow, suffocating, and dark, Li Yao felt as if he were a fish in water when he walked through it. The only problem was that the design of the ventilation tube was too unprofessional, and it did not have any warning power. It was not difficult to infiltrate the ventilation tube at all.
Li Yao had originally planned to follow the ventilation duct to the room where Daniel Zhang was imprisoned.
However, before he reached the twenty-seventh floor, the tracker showed that Zhang Daniu had started to move, and he was moving in his direction.
Li Yao was slightly stunned. He heard two bangs coming from above the elevator shaft not far away. It was the sound of someone destroying the elevator door.
It seemed that great minds think alike. Li Yao and the people of the Apocalypse Organization had the same thought.
Everyone wanted to go up and down quickly through the elevator shaft, but Li Yao had invaded the 27th floor through the elevator shaft and the ventilation duct. The people of the Apocalypse Organization probably couldn't withstand the pressure of the Ark Foundation, or for safety reasons, they were preparing to transfer Daniel Zhang to another place through the elevator shaft.
In such a thunderstorm, the water, power, fire, and elevator systems of the entire building had all stopped working. However, the elevator shaft itself could not disappear. With the abilities of the Awakened, there was not much difference whether there was an elevator or not.
Sure enough, Li Yao pricked up his ears and heard Daniel Zhang's screams coming from above.
"Since you've delivered yourself to my door, I won't be polite."
Li Yao grinned and went back the way he came. He followed the ventilation duct back to the elevator shaft and saw sparks exploding in the darkness above. It should be because the people of the Apocalypse Organization had used some kind of tool to slide down the elevator cable, and the tool had rubbed against the cable.
Including Daniel Zhang, there were a total of four people on the other side.
Above and below were two well-trained men wearing black sportswear, tactical vests, night vision goggles, and gas masks. Their waists were bulging, and it was obvious that they were armed with guns or knives.
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